: Start a blog?
I just read Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog:
Your thread is great! But it is also ephemeral, temporal.
It might feel great to see all the shares, likes and comments and follows rolling in.
But the reality of twitter the way that the platform is designed. Is that no one is going to be able to find it again in a weeks time. And in a month or so no one is going to remember it all.
This thinkpiece falls into a trap that I often see from indie web writers. I guess it’s a failure or unwillingness to empathize with what draws normal people to mainstream platforms in the first place.
Consider that not everyone wants their ideas to be immortal. In fact, that’s the sort of position that requires a baseline level of confidence that ranges from “above average” to “narcissist.”
For many Twitter/Threads regulars, the ephemerality is the point. If you say something massively dumb on Twitter then you might get cancelled, but this risk is overall pretty low, and for the most part you can say something that is moderately dumb and it will just slide down the timeline into oblivion, mixed in with a thousand other dumb takes.
Like it or not, choosing to write a blog in 2025 is the marked choice: it marks you as one or more of the following:
- A rebel who likes to be different just because
- Someone whose beliefs are so fucked up they they got banned on mainstream social media
- Porn
- A hustler who wants to have a “web presence” and sell you their bitcoin NFT AI startup
Is it bad to be these things? Well, no, not necessarily … but not everyone wants to put themself out there like that. For a lot of social media users, the use case is “I want to hang out with my friends, look normal, and share memes,” and that’s simply not what the indie web is for.